Published 6:30 am, Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The pantry smartly hosted open houses recently at five of its eight locations.

Pantry officials had three objectives for the open houses.

They wanted people to know what happens to the food, money or other items they donate.

They wanted people to know how they can volunteer at the pantries.

And, they wanted people to know the help is there if they need it.

The open houses are a great idea and we hope these become a regular part of the network’s outreach as the community participation is incredibly expansive.

A Daily News story on the open houses, published Sunday, was paragraph after paragraph of names of community groups, organizations, churches, businesses, from youth to senior citizen, that help with donations in one way or the other.

We are fortunate to have such an organized network of people helping people.